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Natural history and progression factors of unilateral moyamoya disease in pediatric patients

Authors
 Eun Kyung Park  ;  Yun-Ho Lee  ;  Kyu-Won Shim  ;  Joong-Uhn Choi  ;  Dong-Seok Kim 
Citation
 CHILDS NERVOUS SYSTEM, Vol.27(8) : 1281-1287, 2011 
Journal Title
CHILDS NERVOUS SYSTEM
ISSN
 0256-7040 
Issue Date
2011
MeSH
Adolescent ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Disease Progression ; Female ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Angiography ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Moyamoya Disease/diagnostic imaging* ; Moyamoya Disease/pathology* ; Moyamoya Disease/surgery ; Radiography ; Risk Factors ; Young Adult
Keywords
Moyamoya disease ; Progression ; Unilateral moyamoya disease ; Pediatric
Abstract
PURPOSE: Thirty-four pediatric age patients with unilateral moyamoya disease (MMD) were reviewed to analyze the natural history and the predictive factors for progression to bilateral MMD.

METHODS: Forty out of 259 MMD patients cared for between January 2000 and June 2008 in the Severance Hospital had unilateral lesion. These patients were followed for a mean of 32.3 months for their symptoms and imaging studies. Thirty-four out of 40 patients were included in this study. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and magnetic resonance perfusion (MR perfusion) images were taken for all patients for initial diagnosis and repeated at 6 months from the initial diagnosis and then at yearly basis. Clinical manifestations, the results of imaging studies, outcome of the indirect revascularization procedure, and the progression of the lesion were reviewed in this study.

RESULTS: Of these 34 patients, contralateral progression was identified in 20 patients (58.8%). Fourteen (70%) out of the 20 patients presented with anterior cerebral artery abnormalities at diagnosis progressed to bilateral disease as well as did 5 (83%) out of 6 patients with middle cerebral artery lesions at the initial examination. Among the 34 patients, six exhibited familial history of MMD and all of them progressed to bilateral disease (100%, p < 0.005).

CONCLUSION: Careful and long-term follow-up would be essential to evaluate the hemodynamic status and progression to bilateral disease in unilateral MMD patients to make prompt decision for a surgical revascularization.
Full Text
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00381-011-1469-y
DOI
10.1007/s00381-011-1469-y
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Neurosurgery (신경외과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Dong Seok(김동석)
Park, Eun Kyung(박은경)
Shim, Kyu Won(심규원) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9441-7354
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/95319
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